Open Source E-commerce Scripts?

Brandon

What ecommerce scripts do you guys recommend? I need something that is light weight and easily customizable.

DalComp

Most popular I think:
http://www.prestashop.com
http://www.opencart.com

concerto49

OpenCart?

natestamm

@Brandon I would stay away from Opencart. Versions and developer support are real shakey at best I have found.

natestamm

I should say the admin interface in Opencart is pretty nice it's just in lots of ways they fell behind really bums me out.

If you are a designer and you want to make some cash start knocking out sweet responsive Opencart themes and offer a bunch of them for free. *And if any one knows of any good sources beyond Qphoria and the OC web site for themes I'd honestly really want to hear about them.

Brandon

@DalComp said: http://www.prestashop.com

I've used this before and its pretty slick.

Brandon

Does anyone have any thoughts on Magento?

vampireJ

@Brandon said: Does anyone have any thoughts on Magento?

Magento has to be the leading one but it is very expensive in a lot of ways. Say you need a developer to do Magento stuffs for you- that will be expensive to find. You want Magento certification? Expect to shell out etc

cloromorpho

+1 for PrestaShop.

Mitsuhashi

I would say Magento with a good theme can help make your site look like one of the big boys, and there are tons of great paid extensions out there. Using Community Edition atm, it has some bugs and I really don't want to try touching any code as the whole thing feels huge, complicated, and easy to break. So that is kinda frustrating.

Good hosting for Magento is hella expensive compared to the more lightweight carts -- I've been shelling out $24.95/mo. for 6 months for the lowest-tier Magento hosting on Nexcess, for a site that keeps getting delayed and delayed and delayed because I don't work on it. Meanwhile, I'm chastising myself for shelling out $5/mo. on a LEB that I use for doing lots of fun exploring.

thehray

So u ppl say opencart is good for a small online store.

seriesn

TomatoCart.

24khost

Prestashop ftw!

svgnamy

I've used magento and it is a full featured ecommerce open source software. Most things come standard. There are a few free themes that look good.

However, it is confusing to learn, labor intensive to work and for me, it is difficult to customized unless you really understand it.

As far as developers, I found reasonable and knowledgeable magento developers on odesk.

I am currently using woocommerce through wordpress. I like it because it is wordpress and it's easy to use. I don't like it because many things do not come standard and to add many things tht should be standard is expensive.
($29 - $199)

othelloRob

Magento if you can dedicate a server to it.
Prestashop if you want to run it in shared-hosting.

XavierPS

PrestaShop is definitly the best combination for leight-weight and easy customization! It's used by 135 000 online stores worldwide and has a community of 500 000 members who work together everyday to bring you the best solution in the business! More than 300 native free features, download it now, start selling today
http://www.prestashop.com/

aglodek

I use Drupal for everything, Drupal Commerce module for e-commerce (http://drupal.org/project/commerce). For a quick eval/test, best go with Drupal Commerce Kickstart - a preconfigured Drupal distro (http://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart). Otherwise the learning curve is pretty steep. But sure is worth it

Wira_Soenaryo

Prestashop or opencart would be the best one..

Fritz

Vote for both of them.

Evo

You can see demos of most of them here:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=3&category=eCommerce

+1 for Prestashop

Also, anyone tried http://axiscommerce.com/ ?

Abdussamad

Woocommerce + wordpress. It's got lots and lots of documentation so coding for it is easy. OpenCart doesn't have that unfortunately.